This may have been his honest personal judgment. Or it may have had something to do with commission.

Samsung can’t, though, laugh too loud. It’s not as if the company hasn’t endured its own quality issues. After all, the debacle of the Note 7 caused even President Barack Obama to joke about its explosive qualities.

Samsung seems to have decided to attack Pixel 2 while it can.

The mischievous might wonder what it would choose to do if, say, Apple began to have issues with its iPhone X screen or its much-hyped and slightly controversial Face ID feature, which reports suggest — and Apple has denied — won’t be quite as accurate as Cupertino first envisioned.

Oh, that might be entertaining.

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